Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!uwvax!spool.cs.wisc.edu!mjs From: mjs@behemoth.genetics.wisc.edu (Mike Schmelzer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: sorting a BIG file (solved) Message-ID: Date: 27 Apr 91 23:23:45 GMT References: Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu (The News) Distribution: comp Organization: UW Genetix Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: mjs@behemoth.genetics.wisc.edu's message of 27 Apr 91 17:12:37 Okay, here's what was going on: sort(1) tries to use /usr/tmp (which is on /) instead of /tmp (which I had doinked around with so that it was on /mnt/bigpartition). Why sort does is is a mystery to me. Fortunately, sort takes a -T argument, which allows you to specify where to put sort's scratchfiles. So, all'z I had to do was sort -T /mnt/bigpartition/scratch, and it worked like a charm. Here endeth the lesson. -- ==== Mike Schmelzer, UW Genetix, mjs@genetics.wisc.edu, (608)263-7459. === ========= Schmelzer's Law: You can have anything you don't want. ========= ================ "How can hatred uplift a race?" - 3rd Bass ==============